Gungahlin Al has sent in this pic of work underway to re-open Northbourne Avenue after a eucalypt had the ill manners to come down in rush hour.
Thanks to everyone who’s written in. If you’ve got pix send them in to images@the-riotact.com .
UPDATE: Ben (hereafter Lucky Ben) has sent in this on-the-spot account.
This is a photo I took yesterday with the tree on Northbourne. Was driving along and heard the crack and put the brakes on rather quickly. Consider myself very lucky.
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This’ll give them more ammo in their quest to get rid of all trees. High winds and the increasingly wind-tunnel nature of Civic is not a good combo for trees.
Deref said :
I don’t think so – from my work on Maxine Cooper’s tree advisory panel I recall the horticulturalists saying it has come about due to the frequent irrigation of the grass – the roots never needed to go deep to find water. You can see a lot of them rocking in the ground during winds. They will continue to come down with every storm.
I guess that is why the government isn’t so concerned about the public transport priority project recommending reconfiguring the whole corridor and losing the trees – because they are all going to go anyway sooner or later.
Those trees come down with monotonous regularity. Is that variety particularly prone to being shallow-rooted?
Lucky it didn’t hit a car and/or kill someone. I know we are the bush capital but gee some of these trees are dangerous.
They’re making way for light rail.. one tree at a time
and it’s open again. It took the firies less than 15 minutes to chop it up and clear it away.